Wikipedia is a great resource, but it’s so darned digital. Fortunately for those who love printed matter (and have some sort of vendetta against the world’s paper supply), PediaPress has launched a campaign to bind a complete set of Wikipedia books.

No, this isn’t the first time someone has tried to do something like this. Back in 2012, design student Rob Matthews printed out 437 articles from Wikipedia and bound them into a 19-inch-thick book. At the time, it amounted to about .01% of Wikipedia’s total content.

PediaPress figures their attempt will require 1,000 books, so they’re clearly formatting things differently than Matthews did. If .01% produced a 5,000 page book, the complete Wikipedia would have required 50 million pages.

On the IndieGoGo campaign page, PediaPress states that they’re planning to print out 1,000 books. Each one will contain around 1,200 pages, and the whole collection will be housed in a book case 32 feet long and 8 feet high.

The goal of the project is to create something that shows people just how massive Wikipedia really is — and to show the amount of work some 20 million contributors have put into the project over the years. 260 square feet of hardbound volumes is certainly one way to do that.

It’s an art project, really — not something that you’ll wind up finding in your local library one day. PediaPress would like to send the Books Project on a global tour, but that’s a stretch goal. They’ll need to generate substantially more than their $50,000 goal to make that happen.

Stranger things have happened in the world of crowdfunding, though. All it requires is one Wikipedia supporter with deep pockets to take notice — or for droves of individuals to kick in five bucks each. Although Jimmy Wales would probably like to see some of those funds dropped off on Wikipedia’s own donation page…